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Mrs. Obama Crosses Pond for Cash
August 31, 2007 10:03 AM
ABC News' Jonathan Greenberger Reports: John Kennedy said he was the man who accompanied his wife, Jacqueline, to Paris, but it seems in this campaign potential first ladies are going it alone.
Michelle Obama, aspiring first lady and wife of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will travel to London in mid-October to attend two fundraisers in support of her husband's presidential bid.
While it's not entirely unusual for candidates to seek support from Americans abroad (Diana Kerry, the younger sister of Sen. John Kerry, served as Chair of Americans Overseas for Kerry in 2004), it's not all that often that candidates or their spouses actually travel across the pond to enrich their campaign coffers.
There is no prohibition against it, however, as long as the people giving money certify they are "not a foreign national who lacks permanent resident status in the United States."
Obama spokesman Bill Burton says the scheduled fundraisers are simply a reflection of the support Obama receives from around the world.
"Given the enthusiasm from Americans abroad, this is an opportunity for those folks to be a part of this effort," says Burton.
The fundraisers are scheduled for the 5-star Landmark Hotel in central London on Monday, Oct. 15.
According to the invitation, the main reception is at 7:00 pm, but bundlers who raise $23,000 from friends and family will receive an additional invitation to a VIP Pre-Reception.
August 31, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (105)
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Mrs. BO is out scratchin' for cash for the Obama Nation. It makes sense. Hillary takes cash from Chinese spies, how can BO's panhandling be any worse?
Posted by: TexBork | Aug 31, 2007 12:08:07 PM
I applaud Mrs. Obama for having a global mindset. For example, she sent jobs to Mexico as an executive of a pickle company. Don't we all wish we could "gain business experience" by starting out as a corporate executive?
Posted by: Kevin | Aug 31, 2007 12:11:08 PM
Just the title itself makes the half-brains to double sit on their skulls."Mrs Obama crosses Pond for Cash".Ever since ABC endorsed Hilary , anything with signals of beating off their candidate is toned negative.
Half-brains already brianwashed by the likes of ABC simply tow the line.These are not only half-brains but Numskulls.Cant they simply ask themselves that if a US citizen aboad votes and participates in elections why wont he/she donates for the same elections?
Washington Insiders at work!
Posted by: EE | Aug 31, 2007 12:11:10 PM
So we have Clinton raising money from an Indian fundraiser who is no where to be found and also a Chinese fundraiser who is wanted by California's police.
Now, we have Obama's wife going abroad to raise money.
Apparently the foreigners have learned how to influence American election.
Posted by: frieda | Aug 31, 2007 12:12:46 PM
All of You Are Being Ridiculous...
It is NOT Left vs Right or Republican V Democrat
It's Us Vs Them. Them being our Government. The Government that is stripping our liberties, preparing to microchip us, joining into illegal compacts (North American Union, google or yahoo search it - the mainstream press won't tell you about the NAU or the AMERO - the currency system that is getting set to replace American Dollars within the next five to ten years), A government that is run by private Banking concerns and small groups of powerful men.
A government that has willfully allowed our currency and economic system to become near to worthless due to the illegal Federal Reserve structure.
WAKE UP. It aint about money here or there.
All of our economies are afloat on a raft of drug profits and Credit/DEBT we will never pull ourselves from under.
That structure will sink soon.
Posted by: DS3M | Aug 31, 2007 12:16:40 PM
That is, Unless we can find some new revenue streams.
Record Yields of Poppy in the world, primarily in Afghanistan... Largest amount of opium EVER HARVESTED/PRODUCED IN THE HISTORY OF THIS WORLD.
The CIA has been breaking records the past 3 years in a row.
Funny, I thought we were going to "Burn the Poppy Fields" - Former PM Tony Blair
DRUG MONEY FLOATS OUR ECONOMY.
OIL RUNS IT
WAR = GOLD
IRAQ/IRAN/SYRIA = OIL
AFGHANISTAN = DRUGS
So it IS about GOD
Posted by: DS3M | Aug 31, 2007 12:21:08 PM
Just another Rockefeller controlled CFR Member wishing to finish the destruction of the US Constitution. Well, I found some old info that might help convince a few of you here that there really is a CFR Conspiracy to destroy the US Constitution, "We are about to hear a man tell us that the major tax exempt foundations have been operating to promote a hidden agenda. That agenda has nothing to do with the surface appearance of charity, good works or philanthropy. The real objective has been to influence American educational institutions and to control foreign policy agencies of the Federal Gov. The purpose of the control has been to condition Americans to accept the creation of world government. That government is to be based on the principle of collectivism, which is another way of saying socialism - and, it is to be ruled from behind the scenes by those same interests which control the tax-exempt foundations."
Norman Dodd was the staff director of the Congressional Special Committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations. Dodd was granted access to the 50 years of minutes from the Carnegie Foundation which, along with the Rockefeller Foundation, is the driving force behind the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR is, at present, controlling our government. This is not ''Hearsay'', these are documented Congressional records.
Posted by: Tom | Aug 31, 2007 12:21:20 PM
The Chinese bought the Clinton Administration and look what that has done to our economy. I wonder who Obama is going to sell us out to. Anyone that thinks this idiot would make a good president needs to give up sniffing glue and seek professional help.
Posted by: Dave_D | Aug 31, 2007 12:24:42 PM
WOW!
There sure are some ignorant folks making wild accusations and statements today.
What part of AMERICANS ABROAD
Is confusing ?
Posted by: Dee Anna Roberts | Aug 31, 2007 12:25:35 PM
THERE IS A LARGE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN ENGLAND......!!!!
Posted by: C M RUCKER | Aug 31, 2007 12:30:57 PM
Michelle O has is wrong. China is where the real money is at; just ask the Clintons.
Posted by: News Dude | Aug 31, 2007 12:33:19 PM
It doesn't matter who goes overseas. The fact of the matter is that most of us Republicans are ecstatic about the prospect of a Shrillary Democratic candidacy (which undoubtedly will be the case), no matter what the hospital administrator wife of Osama does. Clinton will save the GOP. All the bitter, whiny, paranoid, pseudointellectual hypocrites on the loony left know this, and they are scared to death. Hence all the idiotic braying and insults from the lefties on this sight. Whining, sour grapes, and insults is all the adle-brained crybaby "Victimcrats" know how to do. That won't win them the presidency in 08 when they have a known corrupt candidate as thier choice.
Posted by: LADoc | Aug 31, 2007 12:35:47 PM
Dear Mrs. ObamaRama,
Please stay in England for good. Oh, and take your phony pretty-boy neo-commie numbskull husband with you.
Thank you and good riddance.
Posted by: Civil War II | Aug 31, 2007 12:40:14 PM
It will never cease to amaze me how so-called "adults" can display such ignorance! Anyone with an IQ of a two-year old should know that foreigners cannot contribute to the American political system. However, Americans living abroad have every bit as much right (and responsibilty) to participate in our political process as do those of you who are obvilously playing with something less than a full deck. People such as Jack Carter who, in a previous post mentioned something about "Negroes". I wonder if he's racist or simply more ignorant than the rest of you who seem not to know the meaning of "American National".
Posted by: Sparky318 | Aug 31, 2007 12:45:55 PM
Wow...I have never seen so much hatred over one little trip overseas to see...AMERICANS ABROAD. I was once an American Abroad...there are thousands such folks, most of which work for the US military, State Department, and businessmen and women who are protecting your interests abroad. I think it is great that a candidate is reaching out to those great patriotic Americans...Americans who are sacrificing far more than most who are posting on this site.
Shame on you guys!
Posted by: InternationalGrrl | Aug 31, 2007 12:52:27 PM
Lots of good entertainment from the Ron Paul led, tinfoil hat wearing, North American Union scare-mongering, right wing isolationist paranoids today! And bringing back Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations....wow, there's an 70's throwback!
I bet some of you still have copies of "None Dare Call it Treason" signed by John Birch himself!
Posted by: Dick Cheney and the Shadow Government | Aug 31, 2007 12:54:09 PM
Many years ago I took a course in reading comprehension and found it very rewarding in helping me to focus and internakize what I was reading. I suggest that many of the individuals responding to this article are responding to the "Headline" and not the content of the article. Read it again folks Ms. Obama is meeting with "American Citizen's" who live abroad who are interested in supporting the Senators capaign. Read the article again and this time fully and slowly then ask yourself what is you just read.
Posted by: murl41 | Aug 31, 2007 1:05:11 PM
Anyone who thinks that one party is less corrupt or less anti-American-people than the other must be high on the drugs they give us. Remember, you do not have to take these drugs simply because they are on your tv and your internet and newspaper.
Posted by: Cpl Billy 'Adolf" Graham | Aug 31, 2007 1:09:52 PM
The law is not always obeyed and politicians (and their wives) are among the very best at finding the loop holes to avoid them. Every Muslim in the world would love to have Obama as president. They are looking for every way possible to "invest" in Obama.
Posted by: Robert Green | Aug 31, 2007 1:14:40 PM
Are some of you really as dense as you portray...she is not raising money from "foreigners", she is raising money from AMERICANS living abroad--that is, citizens of the United States that live in foreign countries. Get it?
Posted by: Jay | Aug 31, 2007 1:17:09 PM
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